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little further on, will make itself heard and seen. It
tumbles from a height of seventy feet, and the adjuncts are
beautiful. One mile further along the winding road or lane,
Langdale Tarn comes into view, with Wetherlam swelling up
grandly to the south of it. About a mile further on, there
is a gate from which the road parts;- the straight forward
one leading on to Blea Tarn and Langdale; and the left hand
one, which our travellers must follow, leading to Fellfoot,
and the old road from Kendal to Whitehaven, which was the
only route before carriers' carts found their way into the
region. Fellfoot was the house of entertainment whence the
pack-horse cavalcade began the ascent, or where they stopped
to congratulate themselves on having accomplished the
descent. The ascent of Wrynose from this point is long and
rather steep: but the views behind become grander with every
step. The travellers are now in Westmorland; but at the
three shire stones at the top, where three counties
meet, they will step into Lancashire, in order to leave it
for Cumberland at Cockley Beck bridge, within three miles
further on. We are glad to hear that a spirited citizen of
Ambleside, to whom his neighbours are under great
obligations, is erecting a stone pillar at the spot where
the shire stones are, that the junction of counties may not
be overlooked (as it easily may be now) by the unobservant
traveller. Young tourists, who happen to have long limbs,
may enjoy the privilege of being in three counties at once,
by setting their feet on two of the three stones, and
resting their hands on the third. The stream which is now on
the right, divides Lancashire
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